One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Orange Collection)

With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature.: a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, it chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Nurse Ratched. McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with devastating consequences. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time.

Ficção / Literatura Estrangeira / Romance